Jacques Cavallier

Jacques Cavallier-Belletrud (born 24 January 1962)[1] is a French perfumer, formerly with the Swiss fragrance and flavor company Firmenich,[2] who currently works for Louis Vuitton of the LVMH Luxury Group.

[8] As a child, his father trained him in the fragrances of natural raw components,[9] and he has stated that the ingredients he considers most essential for perfumers to use include rose, agar wood, jasmine and orange blossom.

[1] At Firmenich, he collaborated with Alberto Morillas to create Calvin Klein's Truth, Carolina Herrera's Chic, Ermenegildo Zegna's Essenza di Zegna, Givenchy's Hot Couture, Oscar de la Renta's Intrusion, Van Cleef & Arpels' Murmure, Van Cleef & Arpels' Zanzibar for Men, and Yves Saint Laurent's M7; he collaborated with Olivier Cresp to create Cacharel's Amor Pour Homme Tentation, Christian Dior's Midnight Poison, Diesel's Fuel for Life Unlimited, Lancôme's Magnifique, Nina Ricci's Nina, Paco Rabanne's Pour Elle, Yves Rocher's So Elixir, and YSL's Elle.

[11] Calone imparts a light, airy, sea-breeze scent with an aqueous watermelon/melon feel that was used by Cavallier in Aqua di Gio and L'Eau d'Issey in the 1990s [11][12] and Bulgari's Aqva Pour Homme Marine in 2008.

[8][15][16] Cavallier credits the synthetic jasmine-like molecule hedione (Methyl dihydrojasmonate) for contributing to the long-lasting freshness characteristic of Eau Savage, and has said that Opium reminds him of the great advances in perfumery that occurred in the late 1970s.